Schlunke E O (11 results)

Octavo, 240 pp., boards. First edition. The author's second collection of short fiction. Sixteen short stories chronicling of Australian rural life. A near fine copy in very good plus dust jacket with light wear at spine ends, dust soiling to rear panel, and clipped price. (#134410).

[8]+240pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A very good copy. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 205x135x20mm+310g . . Angus and Robertson. Sydney. 1955. First Edition. . . : Image is ALWAYS of the ACTUAL BOOK: Book and or Jacket may have names. dedications. marks. tears. foxing. browned pages. creasing and losses unless otherwise noted. . . . . Domestic_tracked_OR_registered_flat_rate_FOR_THIS_ITEM_Within_Australia:_AU$11.60.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 198 pages. Ownership signature on half title page; the name Henry Holden highlighted in the Introduction and the pages are tanned, else clean, unmarked and solid. First Sirius paperback edition. COBNTENTS: Country. Old Heinrich and the lambing ewe The man in the silo The Irling Hay The enthusiastic prisoner Cheap labour The man who liked music A sheep's eye view Holiday The wooer The psychologists Alfred The man farther out The red-shoulders A house in the country Town. The outsider Assimilation A chain-store Venus Hemlock and nightshade The garden of dreams Into my parlour Once a sheep-stealer Sale of a car-owner.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 240 pages. The jacket is chipped at the edges, carrying a short closed tear on the head's outer edge, else clean, unmarked and solid, but obviously second hand. "E. O. Schlunke (1906-60), lived most of his life on the family sheep and wheat property Rosenthal, near Reefton. Schlunke's ancestors were among the group of German Lutheran. He wrote about his work and spoke on the Australian Broadcasting Commission's radio series the Land and its People.".…

First Edition. Stories. Pp. [viii]+240; post 8vo; ;yellow papered boards, spine lettered in red, a couple of tiny bruises to edges, the lower board slightly foxed; price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly soiled, edges rubbed and split; edges of leaves faintly soiled; Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1958. First edition. *Stories of Australian rural life. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 240pp. Yellow cloth in jacket. NOT price clipped. Offset toning to endpapers, small bookseller label on front pastedown, small mark on fore-edge. Very slight edgewear to the fresh bright jacket. Stories of humour and human nature generally set in rural Australia-particularly the Riverina. Size: 8vo.…

Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first collection of short fiction. Twenty-one short stories by "one of the four or five most popular short-story writers in Australia today" (jacket flap copy). A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with just a touch of wear at spine ends. Scarce in nice condition. (#112425).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First edition, with dustwrapper. Yellow boards with red lettering on the spine. Head and tail of spine lightly bumped and rubbed. Binding is neat and tidy. Page edges are moderately discoloured. Free endpapers are a little discoloured. All pages have a very light halo of discolouration, yet this book is in fair condition. Dust wrapper has some very light creasing at the edges. Spine and covers rubbed. Head and tail of spine thumbed and discoloured. Edges and corners are showing some moderate wear and tear. Some discolouration front and particularly at the back, this dust wrapper is in good condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously; they usually present better than they sound.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First edition, with dustwrapper. Pastel yellow boards with red lettering on the spine and front cover. Head and tail of spine lightly bumped and rubbed. Binding is tidy. Page edges are discoloured, only lightly. Free endpapers are moderately foxed and discoloured. All pages have a light halo of discolouration and some patches of light foxing, yet this book is in fair condition. Dust wrapper has some creasing, particularly at the edges. Spine faded. Small tears at the head of spine and along the fore edges. Edges slightly chipped and well thumbed. Some discolouration and general wear and tear. Spine and covers rubbed and thinning from water damage. Head and tail of spine well thumbed. Edges and corners are showing some moderate wear and tear. Some discolouration front and back, this dust wrapper is in fair condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously; they usually present better than they sound.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1955. Octavo, [vi], 214 pages. Papered boards slightly rubbed; top edge lightly foxed; leading edge slightly scratched; a very good copy with the very good dustwrapper (lightly worn, foxed and sunned and with two small closed tears). A collection of 21 unsentimental short stories of rural Australia. 'Schlunke's life, like his range as a writer, was virtually confined to the wheat and sheep country of the Riverina, its towns and its people. He described the taciturn farmers and farm labourers (especially those of the sober-minded German community), the pastors, schoolteachers, bank managers, stock-and-station agents and the womenfolk with a gentle, dry and mildly satirical humour. A number of his stories were about Italian prisoners of war who worked as farm hands during World War II. He published two collections of stories, "The Man in the Silo" (Sydney, 1955) and "The Village Hampden" (Sydney, 1958)' (Australian Dictionary of Biography).…